Boston Marathon Explosion

No one has claimed responsibility so let's try not to blame our favorite political foes for a little while until more facts come out. This was an attack on our country meant to divide us no doubt. Let's not let them win this time. This is pure evil.

 

Trying not to jump to conclusions here but..... The date is hard to ignore.


What Boston celebrates as Patriots' Day has been morphed by many into a militia rally incorporating guns, Waco and Oklahoma City. John Avlon on a fringe holiday growing larger each year.
Today, there will be a five-hour rally held on the Washington Mall in support of the Second Amendment. Organizers emphasize that the odd, non-weekend date for the march was chosen to commemorate the 235th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord, celebrated as Patriots' Day in Massachusetts and Maine.
But in our overheated and sometimes hate-fueled political environment, April 19th has emerged as a "Hatriot" holiday for some anti-government activists and militia groups. Specifically, today also marks the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing of the Murrah Federal Building by Timothy McVeigh, which killed 168 innocent men, women, and children. McVeigh, in turn, was motivated by what he saw as the federal government's unlawful 1993 attack on David Koresh's Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, on—you guessed it—April 19th.
A planned rally today in Oklahoma City was rescheduled only after popular outcry.
Last April 19th, the Oath Keepers announced their formation at Lexington Green, with founder Stewart Rhodes declaring, "you need to be alert and aware of how close we are to having our constitutional republic destroyed!" The group of current and former armed services and law-enforcement officers offers its supporters a list of "10 orders we will not obey" including: "orders to disarm the American people"; "impose martial law"; "invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty" and "any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps." Rhodes will be among the featured speakers today on Washington Mall.
Satellite "Second Amendment" rallies will be held this year in states like Alaska, California, and Louisiana. Separately, "articles of freedom" alleging systemic violations of the Constitution will be presented by smaller groups of activists at all 50 state capitals. Across the Potomac from D.C., an armed Second Amendment rally will be held by a group called "Restore the Constitution" in Ft. Hunt National Park, featuring some speakers from militia groups, like Three Percenter founder Mike Vanderboegh, who wrote on his blog, "It may be our last chance to convince ["enemies of the Founders' Republic"] without violence that we are done backing up… When it is done, when we have come, made our point, and left, the message will be indelible—tyranny stops here, or else." A planned rally today in Oklahoma City was rescheduled only after popular outcry.
Organizers claim the selection of April 19th is entirely coincidental—an assertion rejected by Kari Watkins, the executive director at the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum. "It's not a coincidence," she tells me, "They weren't doing this before Waco and Oklahoma City and in the last few years it's gained momentum. April 19th was a date specifically chosen by McVeigh and (co-conspirator Terry) Nichols as the anniversary of Waco… And if it is a coincidence, they should look around and see that it's a day that many innocent people lost lives because people did not take responsibility for their actions… In Oklahoma City, we lost a lot of lives because of the militia and because of extremism."
• John Avlon: Paranoia on Patriot’s Day As the Southern Poverty Law Center has documented, the United States saw a threefold increase in the number of militia groups during the first year of the Obama administration alone. But Timothy McVeigh's onetime defense lawyer, Jeralyn E. Merritt, cautions against making connections between today's militia movements and McVeigh, telling me "I don't think there will be a repeat based on the same events or factors that influenced McVeigh. He was pretty unique."
A Washington Times article from 1996 illustrates the date's resonance among militia members even before the Oklahoma City bombing. Forthrightly titled "Militias call April 19 'day of concern,' list events well before Oklahoma City," it quoted Militia of Montana founder John Trochman as saying "It's a date marking a reign of terror in various countries at various times." In addition to the historical events mentioned previously, April 19th is also the date of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the occupying Nazis , the execution of a white supremacist named Richard Snell in Arkansas, and the date of an initial incursion at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, home of another patron saint of the fringe, Randy Weaver. It also the date when, in 1933, the United States went off the gold standard—a decision still considered controversial by "End the Fed" groups.


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/04/19/todays-holiday-of-hate.html

 

YEP!

Good for you word, right?

 

Explain the connection between April 15th and April 19th, please.

 

Oh, you guys know lil joe moen was just chomping at the bit to post something like that...the left never lets a tragedy go to waste.

 

Before it is over, it will have been Bush's fault.

 

The problem with Little Joe's second post is that it focuses on April 19th. Today's date is April 15th. Boston may have, indeed, been celebrating Patriot's Day in honor of the Battle of Lexington and Concord (April 19, 1775 - NOT April 15, Little Joe) so Little Joe's article and its references to April 19 makes no sense at all. Plus he said, "The date is hard to ignore". What date? April 15th? Tax Day? Is that the "date that's hard to ignore"?

What the hell are you talking about, Little Joe? I think you have your dates screwed up... If you think April 15 and Oklahoma City, Waco, Ruby Ridge, etc. have anything in common you need to get out of your chair, step out of your office, walk down the hall and speak to one of the professors at your college who knows what they're talking about.

April 15, indeed! SHEEEEEESH! You really are a source of amusement, Little Joe... You really, really are.

 

Oh, give him a break...you know he didn't put any thought into his post, he just cut & pasted like he was told to do.

 

LOL. Yeah and the article references the "15th anniversary" of the OKC bombing. That was 3 years ago!

 

Both Patriot's Day. Or as some have dubbed it Hatriot's Day.

 

HuH? The Oklahoma City bombing was 3 years ago? On what planet? It was on April 19th 1995 Patriot's Day. Why are you guys stabbing at nonsense? Oh sorry, I forgot who your were.

 

We have no idea who committed this atrocity at this point but Patriot's Day? Come on, that doesn't even take all that much imagination if you want to speculate which we do quiet frequently here. Are you so afraid to admit that it even could be a Right-wing hate group? This wouldn't exactly be a stretch for these types of groups would it? The Right-wing foments anti-government nonsense night and day and you somehow expect that no body listens? Of course people are going to listen. I'm sure that gun whackos are crawling out of the woodwork salivating at a chance to do something like this. It certainly could be some lone wolf foreign suspect but only time will tell. In the mean time, I'll just watch you 3 puppies lick your collective wounds and attack me because deep down, you're thinking that it might be time to pay the piper. And you might be right.

 

Hey! Idiot! He said the "15th anniversary" of the OKC bombing was 3 years ago not that the bombing was 3 years ago. I realize you have problems with math, but here is Oklahoma, we agree with CoinOKC.

 

LIAR!!!

 

The article was from 2010....IDIOT!!!! or should I say IDIOTS!!! Because you are all slow.

 

Uhm??? That is what we have been trying to tell YOU. And it talks about April 19th, not April 15th.

 

And as I have told you, Patriot's Day isn't always on the same date every year. Look it up Einstein.

Just keep changing your point. You might actually get one right eventually. I mean it could happen.

 

RLM, he's painted himself into a corner and is desperately trying to get out. He doesn't realize that April 15th has absolutely NOTHING to do with April 19th. Well, that is, unless he's trying to tie Tax Day and the OKC bombing together somehow...

I realized a long time ago that he's a complete moron who just likes to talk out of his ass.

Notice that he said this morning in post #12, "It could be some foreign lone wolf suspect...". The fact that it might be a "foreign lone wolf suspect" was all over the news late last night (indeed, the suspect at this time is a Saudi national) so Little Joe can come back soon and say, "See! I told you it could be a foreign suspect, too". He's so disingenuous it makes me want to puke.

I know he was chomping at the bit for this horrific act to be the work of a right-leaning radical, but it doesn't appear that's the case. Sorry Little Joe, but you can stop salivating now.

It's too early to tell who is responsible for this bombing. For all we know, it might have been Bill Ayers again.

 

Idiots one and all...

Patriot's Day Recent and future dates

• 2011: Monday, April 18
• 2012: Monday, April 16
• 2013: Monday, April 15
• 2014: Monday, April 21
• 2015: Monday, April 20
• 2016: Monday, April 18

 

Please explain what Patriot's Day has to do with this bombing (other than the fact that it coincidentally occurred on Patriot's Day). Are you saying the two are connected?